- Joined
- Dec 22, 2015
After months of patches and flawed launches, the first successful beta test of the newly upgraded League of Legends was to be tried globally, the players hand-chosen from a lottery of a thousand from different parts of the world. Players were advised via manual to remain absolutely motionless in bed while immersing themselves in the 4D virtual reality simulator, for a careless move could easily jeopardize the game's performance. But little did the thousand beta testers know that the system's programming was corrupt and upon logging in, exiting the game via their motor functions would be impossible. There was literally no return to reality after the player's avatar, a cybernetic copy of their carbon selves, would appear in the vast world of League of Legends.
Every logged-in player was transported to a dimension void of anything but dark matter where a personalized 'champion select' hologram materialized in front of their simplified avatar. Not unlike a Normals match familiar to a 2D League of Legends game, several other parties (other beta testers) joined both the ally and opposing team, and champion selections were made left and right via a scroll-by menu. Alistar, Jax, Miss Fortune, Shaco, and Nautilus completed the enemy group, every champion following the first few to decide now locked in. The countdown was loud, deafening, even, over the clustered group of summoners cloaked in uniformed robes, a default attire for anyone starting at a measly level one.
The last champion selection was made and a voice unique to the summoner who had made the last decision echoed loud and clear:
"Only you can hear me, summoner. What masterpiece shall we play today?"
Once the summoners had linked to their chosen champions, the invisible platform they stood upon dissolved, the bottomless pit of nothing below it pulling every summoner into another dimension unlike the limbo they had been trapped in a second ago. Each one came to, all ten summoners scattered in different places on a map not yet conceivable to the poor and inexperienced summoner. But, there was a blue sky above every head and firm ground below their rattled bodies.
With the addition of a certain companion they had chosen to fight alongside...
"Ah, you've finally come to, summoner," Sona sighed in relief, her hands clasped in front of her. Her lips were obviously not moving to the naked eye and her voice, as melodic and celestial as the tunes that naturally resonated from her divine instrument, echoed in her summoner's head. She smiled, ocean-blue eyes giving off a friendly, warm glow that spoken words couldn't quite deliver to her human companion. She simply levitated around her fallen summoner, the ribbons of azure hair flowing like streams behind her, and the etwahl with her. "I was concerned you might not wake." If they hadn't been under the shade of a tree, concealed from view, they would have been at a clear disadvantage against the enemy team.
Every logged-in player was transported to a dimension void of anything but dark matter where a personalized 'champion select' hologram materialized in front of their simplified avatar. Not unlike a Normals match familiar to a 2D League of Legends game, several other parties (other beta testers) joined both the ally and opposing team, and champion selections were made left and right via a scroll-by menu. Alistar, Jax, Miss Fortune, Shaco, and Nautilus completed the enemy group, every champion following the first few to decide now locked in. The countdown was loud, deafening, even, over the clustered group of summoners cloaked in uniformed robes, a default attire for anyone starting at a measly level one.
The last champion selection was made and a voice unique to the summoner who had made the last decision echoed loud and clear:
"Only you can hear me, summoner. What masterpiece shall we play today?"
Once the summoners had linked to their chosen champions, the invisible platform they stood upon dissolved, the bottomless pit of nothing below it pulling every summoner into another dimension unlike the limbo they had been trapped in a second ago. Each one came to, all ten summoners scattered in different places on a map not yet conceivable to the poor and inexperienced summoner. But, there was a blue sky above every head and firm ground below their rattled bodies.
With the addition of a certain companion they had chosen to fight alongside...
"Ah, you've finally come to, summoner," Sona sighed in relief, her hands clasped in front of her. Her lips were obviously not moving to the naked eye and her voice, as melodic and celestial as the tunes that naturally resonated from her divine instrument, echoed in her summoner's head. She smiled, ocean-blue eyes giving off a friendly, warm glow that spoken words couldn't quite deliver to her human companion. She simply levitated around her fallen summoner, the ribbons of azure hair flowing like streams behind her, and the etwahl with her. "I was concerned you might not wake." If they hadn't been under the shade of a tree, concealed from view, they would have been at a clear disadvantage against the enemy team.